AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and Vega 56 Announced.

The moment for which many of us had been waiting for long has now come. AMD has finally revealed Radeon RX Vega gaming Graphics Cards to get back in the business of high-end gaming cards and compete with Nvidia. AMD has revealed its Two new graphics cards; Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56.

AMD will be launching Three Cards of which the best one is a liquid cooled RX Vega 64. Others include Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Cooled for $499 alongside RX Vega 56 for $399. To get your hands on the liquid cooled Vega 64 you need to purchase a bundle which includes Two games, a $200 discount on Samsung 34-inch Curved Ultrawide monitor and about $100 discount on Ryzen 7 1800x Processor and Motherboard combo. Following are three Radeon bundles pricing:

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

RX Vega 56 is loaded with 56 compute units, 3,585 stream processors having 8 GB of HBM 2 memory with a memory bandwidth of 483 GB/s clocked at 1.89 GB/s boosting to 1471 MHz along with a computing power of 10.5 TFlops. This card has the rock bottom TDP rated at 210 W.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 is based on a fully unlocked Vega 10 GPU. The card is loaded with 64 computing units, 4096 stream processors loaded alongside 8 GB of HBM2 Memory clocked at 1.89 GB/s boosting to 1677 MHz and memory bandwidth of 483GB/s. With all the mentioned specs this card is set to challenge Nvidia’s beast 1080Ti. As you can see in the image above Radeon RX Vega 64 will be available in 3 different editions i.e. The Standard version, The Limited Edition that has an aluminium shroud, and a Liquid cooled edition.

All of the cards come with same specifications except for the liquid cooled edition that has a boost clock of 1677 MHz and also has the highest rated TDP of 345W. Also, has the same casing as the Limited Edition one.

AMD Radeon RX Vega Series Specification Comparison

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Stream Processors

4096 (64 CUs)

4096 (64 CUs)

3585 (56 CUs)

Texture Units

256

256

224

ROPs

64

64

64?

Base Clock

1406MHz

1247MHz

1156MHz

Boost Clock

1677MHz

1546MHz

1471MHz

Memory Clock

1.89Gbps HBM2

1.89Gbps HBM2

1.6Gbps HBM2

Memory Bus Width

2048-bit

2048-bit

2048-bit

VRAM

8GB

8GB

8GB

Transistor Count

12.5B

12.5B

12.5B

Board Power

345W

295W

210W

Manufacturing Process

GloFo 14nm

GloFo 14nm

GloFo 14nm

Architecture

GCN 5

GCN 5

GCN 5

GPU

Vega 10

Vega 10

Vega 10

Launch Date

08/14/2017

08/14/2017

08/14/2017

Launch Price

$699*(bundle)

$499/599*

$399/499*

So now you know about the specification and almost everything about the new Vega Lineup but to get your hands on them you need to wait a little bit more. The cards will launch on 14th August 2017. It feels good to see AMD working hard to get back into high-end Gaming Graphics Cards market.